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Date: | Friday 12 April 1940 |
Time: | 16:10 LT |
Type: | Vickers Wellington Mk 1c |
Owner/operator: | 149 Sqn RAF |
Registration: | P9266 |
MSN: | OJ-F |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 6 / Occupants: 6 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | at position 58'45 -
Norway
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Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Mildenhall, Suffolk |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Vickers Wellington Mk.1c P9266 (OJ-F), 149 Squadron: Lost on combat operations (officially "failed to return from air operations off Southern Norway") 12 April 1940. The aircraft left RAF Mildenhall at 11:53 LT on an operation to find enemy shipping along the Norwegian coast. While cruising off Stavanger, the aircraft was shot down by the pilot of a Luftwaffe Messerschmitt Bf.110 and crashed into the sea, killing all six occupants. The Wellington was last seen at 16.10 hours at sea level, at position 58'45"N, 05'30"E approximately 20 km off Egersund, Rogaland
Cpl Langridge was the first airman of RNZAF to lose his life on an operational flight whilst detached to an overseas location.
Sgt Goad was intially buried in Haramsoy.
Reinterred 24 April 1946.
Crew
Pilot: 563876 Sgt Geoffrey Edmund Goad - Trondheim (Stavne) Cemetery Plot A Row V British E 4.
2nd Pilot: 564824 Sgt Frederick Albert Woodcock - Runnymede Memorial Panel 21.
Observer: 530080 Sgt Roy Fox Vickery - Runnymede Memorial Panel 20.
Wireless Operator/Air Gunner: NZ/37156 Cpl Jack Henry Langridge RNZAF - Runnymede Memorial Panel 28.
Wireless Operator/Air Gunner: 627157 AC1 Edmund Brian Doherty - Runnymede Memorial Panel 25.
Air Gunner: 630142 AC2 James Henry - Runnymede Memorial Panel 26.
AC.1 Edmund Brian Doherty is also Commemorated on the Ryde School War Memorial and the Ryde Borough War Memorial, Ryde, Isle of Wight
Sources:
1. Royal Air Force Aircraft P1000-P9999 (James J. Halley, Air Britain, 1978 p 52)
2. National Archives (PRO Kew) File AIR 81/133:
https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C14141883 3.
https://www.baaa-acro.com/crash/crash-vickers-416-wellington-ic-stavanger-6-killed-1 4.
http://www.isle-of-wight-memorials.org.uk/people-ryd/ryd_doherty_eb.htm 5.
https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2186261/ 6.
https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/1532014/ 7.
https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/1809328/ 8.
https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/1803069/ 9.
https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/232314/ 10.
https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/1799948/ 11. Isle of Wight County Press 20th and 27th April 1940:
http://www.isle-of-wight-memorials.org.uk/people_2_d/doherty_eb.htm Location
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
07-Jun-2019 21:12 |
Dr. John Smith |
Added |
07-Jun-2019 21:20 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Source] |
07-Jun-2019 21:24 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Location, Source, Narrative] |
08-Jun-2019 10:35 |
stehlik49 |
Updated [Operator, Location] |
31-May-2022 18:50 |
Anon. |
Updated [Location, Narrative] |